Re: DBMS Selection for 500+GB data and 500

In article <1995Apr17.183019.3256@ucseng.ucs.att.com> w1willi@ucs.att.com (w1willi@ucs.att.com) writes: >From: w1willi@ucs.att.com (w1willi@ucs.att.com) >Subject: Re: DBMS Selection for 500+GB data and 500 >Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 18:30:19 GMT >>Hear, Hear, Lets see some more quotes from that article: (And grab those >>gartner group reports, they are the best thing for Oracle or haven't >>you read one lately?) >Agreed, Tom. Let's see some more quotes from that article. And grab >your thinking cap: quoting out of context is a dangerous thing! >>SUBJECT: INFORMIX FIGHTS ALSO-RAN IMAGE >>SOURCE: Computerworld via First! by Individual, Inc. >>DATE: March 18, 1995 >>INDEX: [1] >But regardless of all that, facts are facts, and when I see them, I see them. >Unlike Mr. Kyte, I'm not an employee of Informix Software and I have no plans >to become one. If I espouse a software product, it's because I genuinely think >it is a good product that can meet customers' needs. OnLine 7.1 is *good*. >Oracle's >equivalent product may also be good, but Oracle Corporation is not going to >sell me on the merits of its products by misrepresentation and bad-mouthing its >competitors' products. If Oracle has a good product, Mr. Kyte, let it stand on >its >own merits. The original post was, like your response, a carefully planned >post of half-truths and misquotes. It was and is intended to misinform >corporate >customers who can't afford Oracle Corp's overpriced products which might not >even fit their needs. >I'd like to respond to Mr. Kyte's quotes from the Business Wire article, but >given his track record on out-of-context quotes, I'll pass. Besides, I'm not >one of those fancy salespersons - I'm just an old country boy who managed to >make it in the big city - and who believes in giving his customers the best >value for the dollar, no matter whose product it is the customer wishes to use. >And I don't like to let them wily salespeople get away with murder. Not even >Informix salespeople. You know Informix is doing something right and scaring Oracle if Oracle is having to rely on misleading customers to keep its market share. That how I measure success. I guess Oracle's back is to the wall and it ran out of ideas so it had to reach into the ugly tricks bag to promote itself. 'Nuff said